Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 (United States Army in World War II: The War Department, Volume 4)

xvii, 640 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 5 tables, 1 map, 26 illustrations, 5 appendices, bibliographical note and guide to footnotes, glossaries, and index. "In this volume Dr. Matloff, coauthor of the preceding volume, carries the subject forward from the conference at Casablanca (January 1943) through the second Allied conference at Quebec (September 1944), applying essentially the same methods and approach... The book is a carefully studied and thoroughly documented exposition of the American case for concentration, first against Germany, then against Japan" (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 8-9). Includes discussion of interactions between military, economic, and political factors and strategic decisions, military diplomacy and negotiation, President Roosevelt as Commander in Chief, major international conferences, the Overlord decision, the Combine Bomber Offensive, etc.